How to use 'find' to return parent directory

Question

I am using find to locate a file, but I want to only return the path to the parent directory of the file.

find /home/ -name 'myfile' -type f

That returns a list of the full path to all of the file matches, but I want to

Answer 1

one way of many:

find /   -name 'myfile' -type f -exec dirname {} \;

Answer 2

The -printf action lets you extract lots of information about the file. '%h' is the directive to get the path part of the file name.

find /home/ -name 'myfile' -type f -printf '%h\n'